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The search for the elusive bottom continues, but stability is foremost on everyone's mind. That's what we have been getting for the past couple days, and into this morning: the S&P 500 has swung in a roughly 10-point range this morning, downright quiet compared to the prior two months.
And the beaten-up market certainly has room for modest moves up. A good example is Oshkosh,[OSK
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None of this sounds good, but the stock has gone from $30 in June to $7 and change. Beating earnings expectations through September is still worth something, and the stock is trading up 15 percent pre-open.
Still, there is still little enthusiasm for a major rally; traders note that corporate and insider buying remains on the weak side.
Elsewhere:
1) Two largest banks in Brazil merge: Unibanco being bought by Itau, the combined bank will now have assets of roughly $265 b, making it the largest bank in South America. Unibanco up about 16 percent pre-open (it trades in the U.S. under the symbol UBB).
2) Circuit City[CC
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3) Delayed IPOs: 1) KKR and 2) AMC Entertainment. Eighty-one IPOs have been withdrawed this year, according to Reuters, and there have been none in the past three months.
4) Ethanol producer Verasun[VSE
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